here are just a few of his books -- "america's education deficit and the war on youth," "twilight of the social," "youth in a suspect society," "neoliberalism's war on higher education." henry giroux is the son of working class parents in rhode island who now holds the global tv network chair in english and cultural studies at mcmaster university in canada. henry giroux, welcome. >> thank you. it's great to be here. >> there's a great urgency in your recent books and in the essays you've been posting online, a fierce urgency, almost as if you are writing with the doomsday clock ticking. what accounts for that? >> well, for me, democracy is too important to allow it to be undermined in a way in which every vital institution that matters, from the political process to the schools to the inequalities that -- to the money being put into politics, i mean, all those things that make a democracy viable are in crisis. and the problem is the crisis, while we recognize in many ways is associated increasingly with the economic system, what we haven't gotten yet is that it should be accompanied